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30th June, a small celebration was held for Viktor's 73rd birthday. with his father's theories and their implementation. As a result, While earlier reports have stated that a large banquet was held in Gerchsheimer found Viktor's description of the processes of their honour by the US Chamber of Commerce, Gerchsheimer implosion and his higher form of atomic energy increasingly denies this on the grounds that Donner would have shunned any incomprehensible. “Gobbledygook" was how Gerchsheimer such publicity. described it to me. Becoming more and more exasperated and When the time came for departure for Texas on Ist July, Dodd, _ frustrated with the whole affair, he eventually came to the conclu- who hitherto had been their constant companion, was apparently _ sion that the Schaubergers had nothing to offer. no longer to accompany them. In an unguarded remark by Viktor also had problems but of a different nature. Together Gerchsheimer, Walter learned that Dodd was about to be dis- _ with the difficulties of communicating his ideas to Gerchsheimer, missed by Donner. Dodd himself was only informed of this about __ his isolation in the oppressive heat and vastness of Texas and his three weeks after the Schaubergers had arrived in Texas. The rea- _inactivity due to Renner's non-arrival, Viktor's psychological and sons for Dodd's dismissal are not recorded, but a newspaper article physical condition declined. On Gerchsheimer's advice and with of 21 August 1959 in the Gazette Telegraph of Colorado Springs Dr Luib's agreement, Viktor was removed to a clinic near reports on a lawsuit against Donner in which Dodd sought Sherman for observation. Eventually staying some four weeks, he US$100,000 in damages for wrongful dismissal. Unaware of his apparently responded satisfactorily to treatment. The end effect of impending dismissal, however, Dodd set about arranging for the —_ Viktor's physical lapse, however, was to increase his longing to immigration of Renner and his wife to the United States, as stipu- —_ return to his natural habitat in Austria. One full, moonlit night in lated in the contract signed in Linz. In this endeavour he appar- August, while standing in the evening cool, Viktor said to Walter: ently pulled a number of strings in high places in order to expedite You have no idea how wonderful it will be when I can tread matters, as no further progress could be made on the project until European soil once more! I felt myself obliged to come to Renner had arrived. This took considerably longer than anticipat- © America despite my health and age. Whatever it was that I could ed, owing to the emergence of certain unstated irregularities which — do, I do believe I have now done.* delayed the Renners' arrival in Seriously concerned for Viktor's Texas until 3rd September. physical condition, Walter proposed Boarding the American Airlines j a as © a plan of work which he submitted plane, Viktor, Walter, Dr Luib and | , *** that all further discussion of to Gerchsheimer on 9th August. In Gerchsheimer then flew non-stop to implosion and implosive devices in this, Walter suggested that once ea Aes ied does | the future was restricted to US Son°,."% vai Sonu tne despondently at the near-treeless : personnel. return to Austria where Viktor which was doted Rere and tee by | tv other words, once in Europe, ff rioving safely installed his tater, bores and high water-towers, all of both father and son were Walter would then return to which provoked the remark: America with his family for a year, What's the point? From a biolog- constrained to total silence on the with visitor status only, to oversee subject and the associated project. f§ the development of the implosion devices. This proposal was evident- had it. The soil's had it and the ly rejected by Gerchsheimer, who, earth is as dry as a hot plate! You unable to evaluate Schauberger's haven't the vaguest idea what water is! Water belongs inside the data himself but being financially committed to the project, had Earth and not above it. What's in these water towers is no longer meanwhile voiced his rising disquiet and disbelief to Donner. water, but fire water!” Upset at hearing this, and anxious for the success of the venture, Arriving in Dallas, they were greeted by Gerchsheimer's family Donner then flew to New York and on to the National Atomic and Harald W. Totten and taken to a restaurant to have something Research Laboratories at Brookhaven, Long Island, to seek expert to eat and relax from the journey. Pending decisions as to their _ scientific opinion on Viktor's theories and his new form of atomic final accommodation, the Schaubergers and Dr Luib spent two or _ energy. In discussions held over the next three days from 15th to three days in a mote! in Sherman before being comfortably 17th August and culminating in a written agreement, the services installed in Harald Totten's large, air-conditioned ranch house _ of Eric A. Boerner, a native German-speaker and the head of a complete with swimming pool, about three miles from town. _ team of design engineers working on the Cosmotron Project, were Encouraged to rest and acclimatise themselves while waiting for _ retained and he was to act as go-between. (Used for the investiga- Renner to arrive, here they were provided with all they needed, tion of atomic structures and nuclear particles, the Cosmotron was which included a telephone and a cook, and a car and chauffeur to a proton [ionised hydrogen atom] accelerator or synchrotron take them into town when necessary. which made use of a large toroidal electromagnet to generate high For the first three weeks while waiting for Renner's arrival, electric and magnetic fields. These were required to guide and Gerchsheimer continued to try to gain greater insight into Viktor's accelerate the particles to an energy of 3,000,000,000 electron ideas. As has been mentioned earlier, however, the language and _ volts [3 GeV] in preparation for subsequent collision with atomic terminology Viktor used to describe the dynamics of implosion __ nuclei, through which the behaviour of the scattered nuclear parti- and the functioning of his machines were very difficult to under- cles could be evaluated.) While no nuclear physicist himself, stand in any concrete way. Moreover, Viktor continually reiterat- | Boerner was sufficiently conversant with the terminology and fun- ed that to understand it all properly it was imperative that an actual © damentals of nuclear physics to be able to translate and transmit machine should be examined. This never happened. Walter was any information to the scientific evaluators that the Schaubergers apparently of no use whatsoever in any of these explanations _ might provide. either, because at the time he was too insufficiently acquainted At one point during these negotiations, Boerner apparently sug- ical point of view, what's down there is a dying land. The water's NEXUS ¢ 41 AUGUST-SEPTEMBER 1996